Life isn't fair. But I, at least, cannot help but look at this & think *there must be a better way*. More funding calls requiring different & long-form applications that take months to process *are not the answer*. Yet each agency in turn strolls out to lay them down. 8/n
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Scientists despair with each because *there is no time* & yet what choice do we have but to /try/ - because otherwise we struggle on unfunded. So stay up late, work harder, tell them the research has to wait... in a pandemic. Is that what we want to encourage right now? 9/n
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Replying to @firefoxx66 @DanielleFong
I talked with another millionaire, who told me before the virus that she wanted to become a known philanthropist. I sent her an email last week and told her that it was a time to shine. She declined to contribute to “causes that didn’t yield a return on investment”.
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You should have impressed upon her that philanthropy is ‘the desire to promote the welfare of OTHERS’, not her own image or ego.
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Oh yes, I tried that when we first met. No matter how much I tried, it seemed to go over her head. Thought patterns are very, very different for some people with money. And she had money, not wealth. Wealth would have had more tact.
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Replying to @caseorganic @WhyScots and
I actually think this virus lays out very clearly what happens when we don't care for "the least of these." For instance, the epicenter of NYC (and a reason it got so bad so fast) is Corona, Queens, where most of our low-level hospital, childcare, and food workers live
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Often these workers survive on low wages and terrible hours and work environments and live in bad conditions. It's not out-of-the-ordinary for there to be 12 beds in a tiny, squalid, 2-bedroom apartment.
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If conditions for these workers were better, if social distancing were actually possible there, the virus might not have wreaked our economy quite so badly. ($$)
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ie a little good works here could = BIG return on investment (to phrase it in your millionaire's language)
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you are exactly right. I am trying my best but there are so many people I can't help. we really need to do better to get the word out. there is pervasive electronic and group censorship, and there is censorship in our own heads of our own hearts. it is a tragedy.
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